Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson has suspended activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared last month from one of the facilities in Birmingham, Ala. In an internal...

August 10, 2006, Thursday

The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson should resign and called his leadership a threat to national security after the department lost another computer with veterans’ data....